Seriously though the only effects the EU has made on my life which might be a bit annoying is causing me to use metric and changing the type of driving license so that I have to renew it every 10 years.
Apart from that it has done many things including having various independent human right courts and the like, and as you point out it has helped with polution and the like.
But without it would those still have occured? I would have to say probabley.
I am also gonna disagree with the other post, saying that it is the worst form of democracy, I would perhaps suggest it its the form of democracy which has been best to me as a person. But I don't really know, I don't really do politics.
Getting back to ontopicness I would have to say that while I am against racists and the like, is this really the way to prevent them? And what stops it being abused by people? It might lead to something where when ever you say anything bad against someone who is different race/creed from you get kicked off your isp, just as you annoyed someone in a flame war.
I am currently working on a small perl program, which streams music, called trout which is sort of part of a bigger kde program, but will soon get its own release. Its still fairly unstable to say the least, but it sort of works.
There is a reason for this plug, this post has got a point:-). I have been fiddling around with various headers being sent (and I still am) and at the moment trout pretends to be an ICEcast server, but I am trying to use x-audiocast headers, with content-length and connection: keep-alive. I'm still working on this (so it isn't even on CVS) but I had never realised I could use it for streaming oggs and mp3s, I was more concerned about sending information about songs, but having read this article I might have to see how it works.
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Seriously though the only effects the EU has made on my life which might be a bit annoying is causing me to use metric and changing the type of driving license so that I have to renew it every 10 years.
Apart from that it has done many things including having various independent human right courts and the like, and as you point out it has helped with polution and the like.
But without it would those still have occured? I would have to say probabley.
I am also gonna disagree with the other post, saying that it is the worst form of democracy, I would perhaps suggest it its the form of democracy which has been best to me as a person. But I don't really know, I don't really do politics.
Getting back to ontopicness I would have to say that while I am against racists and the like, is this really the way to prevent them? And what stops it being abused by people? It might lead to something where when ever you say anything bad against someone who is different race/creed from you get kicked off your isp, just as you annoyed someone in a flame war.
I am currently working on a small perl program, which streams music, called trout which is sort of part of a bigger kde program, but will soon get its own release. Its still fairly unstable to say the least, but it sort of works.
:-). I have been fiddling around with various headers being sent (and I still am) and at the moment trout pretends to be an ICEcast server, but I am trying to use x-audiocast headers, with content-length and connection: keep-alive. I'm still working on this (so it isn't even on CVS) but I had never realised I could use it for streaming oggs and mp3s, I was more concerned about sending information about songs, but having read this article I might have to see how it works.
There is a reason for this plug, this post has got a point
We'll see.